There is no PCI bus on my machine. A possible suggestion is that some code is trying to figure out what my graphics card is and is (perhaps) querying PCI bus to find out. I am a bit new to this and so it may be a red herring. Anyway, I got the above errors when attempting to run from terminal command mode. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

About the hardware acceleration:
With Mate 1710Beta2 I’m on VirtualBox.
After reading this I checked my VM settings and saw that 3D acceleration was checked!
So just for nuts I UNchecked it. And hey presto.
Welcome screen.

Hi,
I also noticed that the Welcome screen is blank (white) with Ubuntu MATE (any recent version, including 17.10 Beta 1) running inside a VirtualBox VM if the “Enable 3D Acceleration” checkbox option in the VirtualBox “Display” section is ticked. So you have to de-select 3D Acceleration to get the Welcome screen working, which is a shame - not sure why.
Kind regards,
Adam.

Don’t really care so much about Welcome, but would appreciate being able to use Software Boutique.

Other than this issue, Ubuntu-mate works very well on Toshiba Satellite 1135, and has fully extended it’s useful life for my purposes.

While I’ve found some posts on the forums with folks reporting this issue, I have not seen any solutions posted that work (or sometimes even apply) to this situation. Since it appears this is not really an isolated instance, can anyone point me to a link to a FAQ or something about this issue?

As a workaround, Is there an older version (as in the version in 16.04 Install CD) that can be installed to replace the latest version?

Now the only thing left is to ask @lah7 to enable software based rendering when OpenGL hardware is below minimum requirements (or just add an option to run the program with Software Based OpenGL --soft-gl). Probably some animation was added at some point in development that requires a newer OpenGL.

Some good analysis, it would actually help other projects too, as I know a few other WebKit2-based applications where the same issue has cropped up with no firm solution.

In my quick test, it didn’t seem to make a difference in a known problematic environment (VirtualBox with 3D acceleration enabled) so I’m not sure if it’s the ultimate solution. As bizarre as it sounds, others had success just by updating their systems (or it occurred after an update).

It’s certainly a parameter (probably --software-fallback) we can add in a few update – Welcome’s codebase and development has gone a bit stale at the moment so not anytime soon.

You, sir, are a genius! I went ahead and added that environment variable to the Exec line in the desktop files in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/

exampleExec=env LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 BAMF_DESKTO …(the rest of the line - point is I inserted it immediately after env)

Now I can finally see both the welcome screen AND software boutique on my old inspiron 600M. THANKS!

Of note to anyone else with the white welcome/software windows, this fix IS persistent through a reboot, so it’s finally G2G. Still can’t get the autorun one to show up at login, but progress nonetheless.

I just installed and am experiencing the same issues described in this thread, with the Software Boutique screen empty after showing coat hangers for a couple minutes. I have tried some of the suggestions here but am not having much luck. I am new to Linux so it is likely I am not doing something correctly. Everything else seems to be working well

I switched the software source location to main (was Canada), still went blank

i checked the Canonical Partners in Other Software , still went blank

I ran from the terminal - still went blank but terminal displayed the following in the terminal window (WTFCrash sounds like what I have been mumbling

I am running on an HP Pavillion laptop. Does anyone have any ideas what I need to do to get this working? this thread is 6 months old so not sure if anyone still connects to it.